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Furthermore, numerous studies predict climate change will increasingly affect the country's ecosystem, causing drought and famines. The government of Ethiopia has initiated a green economy policy to counter climate change and foster economic development such as the 2011 Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE). [1]
Renewable energy in Ethiopia. Ethiopia generates most of its electricity from renewable energy, mainly hydropower. The country is strategically expanding its energy sector, aiming for a more diverse and resilient mix. The country's current energy production is heavily reliant on hydropower, which constitutes about 90% of its energy production ...
The green zone has two separate rainy seasons, and the red zone has a single peak in rainfall in Jun to September. Ethiopia has two main wet seasons per year. It rains in the spring and summer. These seasonal patterns of rainfall vary a lot across the country. [10] [11] Western Ethiopia has a seasonal rainfall pattern that is similar to the ...
Ethiopia: 15 2016 Contribute to fulfilling the Climate Resilient Green Economy goal and middle-income status by 2025. Forestry contributions for farming and food security. Climate resilience, Development of techniques to be used to develop land later. Host public and private investors interested in financing projects which contribute to the goal.
Under his leadership, Ethiopia developed a comprehensive Climate Resilient and Green Economy (CRGE) Strategy, which has the goal of transforming the country into carbon-neutral middle income country by 2025. Meles initiated UNEP's Billion Tree Campaign, planting total of 1.7 billion trees since early 2007.
Public consultation about dams in Ethiopia is affected by the political climate in the country. International Rivers reports that "conversations with civil society groups in Ethiopia indicate that questioning the government's energy sector plans is highly risky, and there are legitimate concerns of government persecution.
Climate resilience is a concept to describe how well people or ecosystems are prepared to bounce back from certain climate hazard events. The formal definition of the term is the "capacity of social, economic and ecosystems to cope with a hazardous event or trend or disturbance". [1]: 7 For example, climate resilience can be the ability to ...
36.1%. Ethiopia's economy experienced strong, broad-based growth averaging 9.4% a year from 2010/11 to 2019/20. Ethiopia's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed down to 6.1% in 2019/20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [77] Industry, mainly construction, and services accounted for most of the growth.